Lemonade stands aid cancer research

What started as a 4-year-old's neighborhood lemonade stand to raise money for pediatric cancer research has grown into a national annual event and will be in Lawrence on June 6 and 7.

Alexandra "Alex" Scott, who battled cancer, started the stand in 2000 to help her doctors find a cure for children's cancer. She died four years later, but the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation has continued her fundraising efforts and raised more than $18 million nationally.